Month: July 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen former Presidents Benjamin Mkapa and Olesegun Obasanjo take up their assignment as mediators in the present conflagration in the Democratic Republic of Congo, behind them will lay major problems. They include a serious refugee crisis in Uganda, perhaps more evidence of extra-judicial killings, the sort that support theargument by Barack Obama’s War Crimes Ambassador

Reading Time: 1 minuteI have kept away from the buzz around Rwanda and the mutiny known as M23 ( named after the March 23, 2009 agreement for the integration of a previous group CNDP into the Congolese national army. Since the agreement was considered cancelled- so M23 took up its cause or something like that). In particular the

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen the mountainside collapsed it took three days for earthmovers to arrive. It was the second time mud and stone were burying villages around mount Elgon alive. The last time was about two years back. After such a delay one cannot talk of a rescue effort. That would imply that one expects survivors. Some bodies

Reading Time: 2 minutesPresident Yoweri Museveni and his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila are talking about the crisis in Eastern Congo according to the Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi. This revelation was made by Mr. Mbabazi on Saturday afternoon at the second “tweetup” a techie “ask the prime minister” hang out which publishes a Q&A under the hash tag

Reading Time: 2 minutesUganda’s sole power distributor, Umeme, is in the final stages of listing on the Uganda Securities Exchange. The company sources say has sought approval from the Capital Markets Authority and is expecting to hear from the regulatory authority within days. If it receives approval this development would be a game changer for the company that

Reading Time: 2 minutesTullow Oil has released its half-year trading statement. Its good news for investors in the company and a boost for those eyeing Africa’s prospects. Its Uganda farm down, whose 2.9 billion value has colored its books, has singularly affected the Tullow balance sheet. However developments elsewhere in West Africa are the fuel that drives the